Lighthouse

Highlights:

Jack takes his shirt off and notices a relatively fresh Appendectomy scar on his abdomen. He calls his mom to ask when he got it taken out, and she says he was 6 or 7. Hmmmm......

In the alterna-universe, Jack has a son!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His son's name is David. He is around 13 or 14, and his mother is no longer married to, or with Jack.

They have a terrible relationship, and all Jack wants is to be a part of his life.

Jack goes to his mom's house and finds Christian's last will and testament after denying a drink from her. Good job, Jack. You're not an alcoholic.

Jack finds his son missing when he comes home, and goes to his baby's momma's house to find him. His baby's momma is conveniently out of town, and unnamed. He finds out his son is auditioning for a conservatory Philharmonic concert thing.

He goes and watches his son play piano amazingly. An Asian boy asks if that is his son. He says that he is very good, and hugs his own father. His father is Dogen!

Dogen and him talk about how they are too young to have this kind of pressure on them. He asks how long his son has been playing, and Jack admits that he doesn't know. He is a bad father.

After the audition, Jack tells David how proud of him he is. He tells him that he loves him no matter what. David says that he didn't tell him because he didn't want him to see him fail.

Jack tells him about his relationship with his own father, and says that his father said that he "Didn't have what it takes." He tells him that he feared his father, and never wanted David to feel like that. He said that David could do no wrong in his eyes, and that he loves him so much. It was a beautiful scene.

Back on the Island, Jack tells Sayid that the Others wanted to poison him because he is sick. He tells him that he knows that because it happened to Claire. He tells him it is a darkness.

Hurley finds Jacob by the hot tub inside the Temple, and Jacob gives him a mission. He tells him to get a pen because there is a lot of information to remember, and then he disappears.

Hurley goes on the mission by himself because Jack is impossible to get through to. Dogen catches him running around in the hallways of the Temple and asks him what he is doing. Jacob appears to Hurley and tells Hurley to tell him he is a Candidate.

Hurley says "I'm a Candidate, I can do what I want." Dogen mutters a long stream of Japanese swear words and storms off.

Jacob tells him that he can't do this mission by himself, and that he needs to go back and get Jack.

Hurley tells Jack that he needs to go with him outside of the Temple. He tells him Jacob told him to do so. After Jack stubbornly refuses, Hurley says that Jacob said he would do that. He tells him Jacob said "You have what it takes." Bladow! Jack gets spooked and decides to go with Hurley.

Hurley and Jack trek through the jungle together and Hurley reminisces about the good ole days. He asks Jack why he came back to the island.

"I came back because I was broken, and I was dumb enough to think that this place could fix me." ....awkward.....

Hurley feels bad for asking a question that produced such a deep answer, and tells him he came back because Jacob was in his cab and told him to do so.

Jack runs into Kate and invites her to the Lighthouse. Hurley says she's not invited. Kate tells them that Sawyer is on his own, and that Jin went back to the Temple. She says that she is going to look for Claire, and un-invites herself. Thank God. I could have done without this scene.

Hurley and Jack get to the Lighthouse, and they look at it in awe. Jack asks Hurley why they haven't seen such a massive structure before. Hurley, for the first time, says something deep and meaningful:

"Probably because we weren't looking for it."

They get to the top of the Lighthouse, and Hurley refers to the many notes written on his forearm. He says they need to turn the mirrors to 108 degrees. Jack stands and watches as Hurley pulls the chains of the mirrors, and sees flickers of his life in them.

He sees something else interesting, too....

This would be a big shocker to us if we hadn't seen what Smokey showed James last week, but it is still cool to see.

Jack tells Hurley to pull the chains to 23 degrees. Hurley says it's not what Jacob told him to do, so Jack pushes him out of the way and does it himself. He looks into the mirrors and sees the house he grew up in as a child. He realizes that Jacob has been watching all of them from this lighthouse since they were born. He feels violated and does something rash.

Hurley tells him that their mission was to make sure someone was able to get to the island, and that Jack ruined it.

Hurley gets a visit from Jacob after Jack sits on a cliff and stares at the ocean. Jacob tells him that the person will find another way to get to the island. Even though Hurley thought he failed, Jacob said that Jack needed to find out how important he is in all of this. He says that some people just need to be told to come to the island in a cab after getting out of prison. He says that others need to stare out at the ocean for a while. He says that if he told Hurley what was really supposed to happen, he risked Hurley not going. He disappears.

Meanwhile, Claire captures Jin and an Other. Jin finds the skeleton of a small animal dressed up as a baby in a crib she made. Clearly, she has issues. She tells them that the Others stole her baby. She said that her dad and her friend told her so. When Jin asks who her friend is, she changes the subject.

Claire raises her axe to kill the Other, and Jin tells her that Kate took her baby to keep him safe. He tells her that he is three years old, but she kills the Other anyways.

Jin goes along with her madness, and plays to whatever she wants to hear. After she kills the Other, he says he was lying about Kate having her baby. He said he just said it to save the Other's life.

Claire says she is glad that Jin was lying. She said that if Kate did take her baby, that she would kill Kate.

Jin is in waaaayyyy over his head.

Smokey comes into Claire's tent. Jin is surprised, and says "John?"

The last time he saw him, he went down the well to the Orchid Station. As far as I can remember, they were waiting at Dharmaville for John Locke's return. Jin must be completely oblivious to the current chain of events in John and Smokey's life.

Claire laughs and tells Jin "That's not John, that's my friend."

Special Moments:

I liked that Jack was shirtless in the beginning of this episode.

I liked that they acknowledged Adam and Eve again, and a common fan theory of potential time travel to come.

I liked that Miles and Hurley played their own make-shift version of Tic Tac Toe. It's kind of reminiscent of his and Charlie's golf course. Gotta keep up that morale...

I liked that Jack has a son, but I don't like that we don't know who he had him with.

I like that Jin is actually involved in a subplot without Sun that is interesting.

I liked that Jack still drives his shitty Bronco.

I liked that Kate only had three minutes of screen time.

I liked seeing Dogen in Jack's alterna-universe.

I liked Hurley telling Dogen "I do what I want."

I liked seeing Jack make funny faces with his son in a photo booth.


I liked seeing Jacob again, although I think he needs to be a little more cryptic.

I liked that they explained how Jacob saw everything in their lives.


Theories/Speculation:

Why is Jack the only one noticing physical evidence of the island existing in another dimension? The first evidence we see of this is in the season premiere. He is on the plane and sees a cut on his lower neck that doesn't make sense. Scars from what Juliet did to him in Season 4 coming back? Hmmm. It kind of makes me believe that the time difference Faraday noticed is a good explanation for this. The time difference could have grown exponentially from when the freighter first came to the island. It started at 31 minutes, and then grew longer over three years. Now that Jughead was set off, we might have to wait months or years for the island to catch up with the real-world time. Maybe as the island creeps along, scars from the old world are appearing on him? I don't really know....

Who is Jacob trying to bring to the island? Was it all just a ploy to make Jack realize how important he is? Or is the person actually going to find another way to get to the island? Jacob told Hurley to set the lighthouse to 108 degrees. 4+8+15+16+23+42= 108. 108 was "Wallace" on the lighthouse. Who is Wallace? Some believe that 108 is Desmond, even though his last name is Hume. Wallace could be his mother's maiden name or something weird like Faraday's last name. His name is Daniel Faraday when his parents are Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore. Doesn't make a damned bit of sense. Or, maybe Wallace was just an accident. Either way, I do think that it is Desmond. Eloise told him in season 5 that the island wasn't done with him yet. Someone on lostpedia.com pointed out that he lives on a boat with Penny and Charlie, and it is very likely that he stumble upon the island. Especially if Jacob wants him to.

The only other burning question I have right now is who is David's mother? It can't be his ex-wife (if he even married her in this universe), and it sure as hell isn't Kate. David has blue eyes like Kate, but I think they did that to throw us off. Who do we know that has musical talent? Charlie? Daniel Faraday? Dammit. Guess I'll have to wait for it.

'Til next week....